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The Italian Renaissance Pages 150-154
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The date of the Italian Renaissance
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1350-1600
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humanities
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history, grammar, rhetoric, and poetry
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humanism
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started out as only an intense interest in the subject of humanities, but later exalted man as a god
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Petrarch
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"The Father of Humanism"
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Wrote Letters to the Ancient Authors
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Petrarch
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Boccaccio
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Wrote the Decameron which was written during the Black Death
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Niccolo Machiavelli
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Wrote The Prince, which was the only book of lasting importance in the Italian Renaissance
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patrons
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people who use their own money to support the arts
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Giotto
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painted many church walls in Italy including The Last Judgement
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Leonardo da Vinci
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Painted the Mona Lisa and The Last Supper
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Renaissance man
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one who displays his talents in all fields
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Raphael
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Painted the Sistine Madonna and The School of Athens. Died at age 37
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Michelangelo
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Painted the ceiling and walls of the Sistine Chapel. Sculpted marble statues of David and Moses, Greatest Italian lyric poet of the 16th century
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Johann Gutenberg
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invented the moveable-type printing press in 1440
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The date of Gutenberg's first printed edition of the Bible (the Vulgate)
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1456
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